Changing approaches to SETI are getting public attention these days, as witness a new article in The Economist that makes reference to the probable cause of the interest, the publication of Paul Davies’ The Eerie Silence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). Sub-titled ‘Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence,’ Davies’ book is making accessible to the general public the kind of discussion we’ve often had in these pages, looking at the question of whether our SETI strategies at radio and optical wavelengths aren’t too limited for any chance of success. The Economist is just one sign of the new interest.